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Here at last is a fascinating and compellingly readable but also scholarly and crisply written biography of the brutal, debauched and brilliant tsar who formed modern Russia. Lindsey Hughes, Professor ...

NEW YORK -- The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.

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Dmitry Bivol is the WBA light heavyweight champion. Bivol won the title by defeating Trent Broadhurst by first-round KO in November 2017. During those six years, he has defended the title nine ...

An admitted ‘fanboy’, Jay Hovdey speaks to Ed Dunlop and Frankie Dettori about the hugely popular globetrotting mare who won ...

The fair skinned man looks over his right shoulder toward the viewer with soft dark eyes, short dark hair with thin beard and moustache. The face is the most defined part of this self portrait of the ...